EPORT 

OF THE 

AGRICULTURAL COMMITTEE 

ON THE 

NEEDS OF THE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE 

OF THE 

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 



DECEMBER, 1910 






THE GENERAL AGRICULTURAL COMMITTEE 
The Interests which it Represents 

This committee may be said to represent the following organi- 
zations : 

The Illinois Live Stock Breeders' Association, 

The Illinois Grain Dealers' Association, 

The Illinois Corn Growers' Association, 

The Illinois State Farmers' Institute, 

The Illinois Horticultural Society, 

The Illinois Dairymen's Association, 

The Illinois State Florists' Association, 
besides miscellaneous unorganized agricultural interests. 

How THE Committee Came into Existence 

Appropriations made by the State of Illinois for the conducting 
of experimental work in agriculture at the Experiment Station, in 
connection with the College of Agriculture at Urbana, have carried 
with them the provision that such funds should be expended under 
the supervision of an Advisory Committee of five members in each 
case, which committees are appointed respectively by the various state 
organizations interested in the lines of work in which experiments are 
to be made. 

Following out this provision 

The Illinois Grain Dealers' Association and the Illinois Corn 
Growers' Association, jointly, appoint the Advisory Com- 
mittee on Crops, 

The Illinois Live Stock Breeders' Association, the Committee 
on Animal Husbandry, 

The Illinois State Farmers' Institute, the Committee on Soils, 
The Illinois Horticultural Society, the Committee on Or- 
chards, 

The Illinois Dairymen's Association, the Committee on Dairy- 
ing, 

The Illinois State Florists' Association, the Committee on 
Floriculture. 



Thus have come into existence six committees of five members 
each, having a general supervision over the experimental work in ag- 
riculture. These committees meet separately as the interests of their 
individual departments require, and general meetings of all are held 
at least once a year. It is fair to assume that each committee is com- 
posed of representative men of the state in the particular branch of 
agriculture covered. It is also fair to assume that these thirty men, 
acting jointly, represent in the broadest possible way the agricultural 
interests of the state. 

At a general called meeting of these committees held at Urbana 
on August i6, 1910, the condition of the Agricultural College was 
taken under consideration. Such short investigation as could be made 
at the time convinced those present that a thorough investigation was 
needed, and by unanimous vote a committee was constituted to ar- 
range for a general investigation. Ivlr. F. I. Mann, of Gilman, Illi- 
nois, was made Chairman and all members of the Advisory Com- 
mittees were named as members, as well as the various officers of the 
before mentioned agricultural associations. In addition to this, prom- 
inent men interested throughout the state were added to the com- 
mittee. 

On October 17 this committee, which was called the General 
Agricultural Committee^ met, pursuant to written notice, at the Agri- 
cultural College at Urbana. As a result of its deliberations, the fol- 
lowing conclusions were arrived at : 

First: That conditions were most critical and the existence of the 
Agricultural College as a school of the first rank was at stake. 

Second : Any practical solution of the problem and the drawing 
of conclusions which could be sustained before the people of the 
state, would require extended and careful investigation which could 
not be carried out by a large body of men. 

Third : That a small committee must be selected which should 
consist of representative men who would be able and willing to give 
the necessary time to a thorough and exhaustive investigation, and 
that such investigation would necessarily require an investigation of 
the institutions in the neighboring states and a knowledge of the work 
done and the work planned in those institutions. 

Thereupon the following committee was appointed to undertake on 
behalf of the General Committee the investigation specified : 

F. I. Mann, Chairman, Gilman, Illinois; Auditor of the State 
Farmers' Institute. 



OCT 10 *• 



Ralph Allen, Delavan, Illinois ; Director of the State Farmers' In- 
stitute. 

H. J. Sconce, Sidell, Illinois; Corn Breeder and Grower. 

C. A. Ewing, Decatur, Illinois; Attorney-at-Law and farmer in a 
large way. 

W. N. Rudd, Blue Island, Illinois; President of Mount Green- 
wood Cemetery Association, Chicago, and identified with the orna- 
mental branches of horticulture. 

Upon the fact of the appointment of this committee becoming 
known to the Trustees of the University of Illinois, they delegated 
two of their members, Mr. A. P. Grout, of Winchester, Illinois, and 
Mr. F. L. Hatch, of Spring Grove, Illinois, together with Eugene 
Davenport, Dean of the Agricultural College, to accompany the com- 
mittee in their tour of inspection. Upon the completion of the in- 
spection of other institutions, and after a subsequent thorough investi- 
gation of the College of Agriculture of the State of Illinois, a meet- 
ing of the General Agricultural Committee was again called, which 
was held at Urbana on December 8 and 9. 

At this meeting the report of the Sub-Committee was presented 
and unanimously approved. The Sub-Committee was continued and 
made a permanent committee by unanimous vote, with instructions to 
make public the findings in the report, and to promote in every pos- 
sible legitimate way the strengthening of the Agricultural College of 
the University of Illinois in accordance with the terms of the report 
so accepted. 

The Work oi? the Committee 

The committee at its first meeting decided that a knowledge of 
conditions in similar institutions in other states, as had been pointed 
out by the General Committee, was absolutely necessary ; and that a 
proper investigation of other institutions required a knowledge of the 
scope of our own College, of the conditions now existing and, in a 
general way, of the demands made by the people of the state. A pre- 
liminary investigation of conditions at Urbana was undertaken by 
each member individually presumably in the line of supplying his 
own individual requirements. 

October 27, the committee, together with Dean Davenport and 
the two members of the Board of Trustees, left Chicago for Ames, 
Iowa, examining the Iowa College of Agriculture at that place; thence 
going to Lincoln, Nebraska, for an investigation of the Nebraska 
State College of Agriculture; thence to Minneapolis and the Min- 
nesota College; then to Madison, Wisconsin, and the State Agri- 



cultural College of Wisconsin. Later a second trip was taken in- 
cluding the Michigan Agricultural College at Lansing, Michigan ; the 
Agricultural College of the State of New York, connected with Cor- 
nell University, Ithaca, New York; the New York State Experiment 
Station at Geneva, New York; and ending with the Ohio Agricul- 
tural College at Columbus, Ohio. The entire committee, as well as 
the two Trustees and Dean Davenport made the two trips with the 
exception of Trustee Grout, who was unable to make the visit to 
Lansing, Michigan, but covered all the rest of the trip. 

After the return from the tour of inspection the committee met at 
Urbana and was in session almost continuously, days and evenings, for 
six days. Its work at Urbana consisted in a careful examination of 
the buildings, the equipment, and the scope of instruction, and a com- 
parison with other institutions in the light of information acquired 
during the trip. The committee made it a special point to closely 
question the leading men in other institutions as to their views upon 
agricultural education in general, the strong points in their own work, 
and also the weak parts of their organization, and the information 
thus gained was of much value when applied to the investigation of 
our own conditions. The chief of each department of the Agricultural 
College at Urbana was examined at length as to the needs of his 
department, and as to the conditions existing. The Dean of the Col- 
lege was called upon to corroborate or modify the opinions of his 
assistants. All facts were weighed, statements were sifted, differing 
local conditions between Illinois and other states were considered, 
and the committee used its best judgment to separate and discard all 
fads and theoretical fancies. It had in view, first, efficiency, and, 
hardly second, almost equally economy. In other words, its attempt 
was to make such recommendations as would secure for the people 
of Illinois in its College of Agriculture, a great, strong, economically 
and practically organized public service institution which should work 
to the betterment of the whole people of our commonwealth. 

The Findings of the; Committee 

Having been so courteously received at every institution visited, 
and so freely and so fully advised as to the details of organization and 
management in each case, it would have been highly improper to 
make specific statements or criticisms. It may suffice to say in gen- 
eral that the committee found much to commend and much to rec- 
ommend for adoption in our own College. It also found some things 
to criticize, notably in some institutions what appeared to the commit- 



tee to be extravagant expenditure for buildings and for equipment. 
It found that the best work was not in all cases being done where ex- 
pensive buildings and expensive equipment existed. On the other 
hand it found in other institutions where the buildings and equipment 
were inadequate, that the work of a good corps of men was not so 
effective as it should be. Its findings are based on the necessity for 
a high grade staff, reasonably good equipment which will permit of 
obtaining the best results of which the staff is capable, and of a suf- 
ficient number of plain, well built, substantial, but not high priced 
buildings to house the equipment and to furnish room for properly 
and economically giving the instruction and research demanded. 



Specific Re;commendations 

A careful scrutiny of present lines in which instruction was given 
and a study of the records of attendance, made it evident that none 
of the present lines could properly be discontinued. The committee 
also became convinced that the items included in the report under 
"New and Enlarged Lines of Work" were essential. It should be un- 
derstood that not all of these lines are new but that a part of them 
have been worked out in a small way and that the progress of agri- 
culture and general science, and the demand from the people of Illi- 
nois requires their enlargement along lines specified. 



Classes oe People in the State Beneeited by the 
Agricultural College 

It was understood by the committee that it might be claimed that 
an enlargement and strengthening of the Agricultural College was 
class legislation, and was singling out the farmer for benefits denied 
the other citizens of the state. Secretary Wilson of the Department 
of Agriculture has stated that eighty-five per cent of all the materials 
used in manufactures are agricultural products. All of the railroads 
in the state of Illinois are dependent for a large proportion of their 
earnings upon the transportation of agricultural products from the 
farm and the transportation of the farmers' purchases from the cities. 
Every citizen of the state is dependent upon the farms for his food 
supply, and every move which increases the productiveness of the 
farm tends to increase the abundance of his food supply and decrease 



the cost of the same. In times of large crops the state is prosperous; 
in times of short crops the reverse is the case. It should be borne in 
mind that while trade and commerce do not increase the aggregate 
wealth of the country but simply transfer it from one point to an- 
other, the farmer is a producer and that every percent by which his 
crop is increased is so much added to the wealth of the state, and is, 
therefore, of an advantage to every other citizen in the state. 

However, while in certain of the new and enlarged departments 
of the college the activities will be directed specifically to the better- 
ment of the farmer, many of them apply equally to every citizen in 
the state. Municipal and sanitary dairying, while incidentally benefit- 
ing the producer of milk, have for their object the purifying and 
rendering sdfe the milk supply of the state, and thus affect to a many 
times greater degree the inhabitants of the cities. Landscape Garden- 
ing, which has for its primary object the embellishment and adorn- 
ment of the home grounds, affects each citizen equally. The same 
applies to Floriculture. The raising of poultry is becoming more and 
more a work carried on in the suburbs and outskirts of the cities. 
The conservation and increase of the forest areas, and the timbering 
of lands which are now waste touches all citizens both by the in- 
crease of resources and by the influence upon the water supply. 
Household organization and activities and household sanitation and 
health, are subjects which apply alike to every household in the state. 
The work of the College, therefore, both in a broad way, as has been 
shown, and in many specific ways, applies to all citizens of the state 
and cannot be regarded as favoring one class at the expense of an- 
other. 

It is a fair assumption that in the extent of money invested in 
agriculture and in the bulk of its agricultural products, Illinois leads 
all the states of the Union. The committee has given weight to this 
fact and yet has not attempted to create a competition in expenditures 
for agricultural education, or to recommend that our state make ex- 
penditures in proportion to those made in certain lines by states of 
lesser importance, but it has attempted to find out what is really 
needed and to recommend such expenditures as will enable the Col- 
lege of Agriculture of Illinois to meet the proper demands of the citi- 
zens of Illinois. For the Committee, 

W. N. RUDD. 



GENERAL AGRICULTURAL COMMITTEE 

Re;P0RT of SuB-COMMITTEe 

We, your committee appointed to visit the various Agricultural 
Colleges and to make comparative investigations of conditions exist- 
ing, beg leave to submit the following report: 

At our first meeting to give general consideration to the matter 
placed in our hands, it became evident that a close survey of the 
work in other states must be made. 

We, therefore, have visited the following institutions: 

Iowa State College of Agriculture, Ames, Iowa. 

Nebraska State College of Agriculture, Lincoln, Neb. 

Minnesota State College of Agriculture, Minneapolis, Minn. 

Wisconsin State College of Agriculture, Madison, Wis. 

Michigan Agricultural College, Lansing, MicH. 

New York College of Agriculture — Cornell University, Ithaca. 

New York State Experiment Station, Geneva, N. Y. 

Ohio State College of Agriculture, Columbus, O. 

The above list of institutions was selected to be visited as being 
considered typical of the various ideas and methods of instruction 
and research which might be of most use in considering our Illinois 
problem. 

At each institution visited an attempt was made, so far as the 
time at our disposal permitted, first to make a general survey of the 
buildings, equipment and financial resources, and of the relative em- 
phasis given the three different branches which must necessarily be em- 
braced in the activities of all such institutions which properly fulfill 
their functions, namely, Teaching, Research and Extension (that is 
the carrying to the people and the putting in practical operation the 
results gathered through research and experimentation) ; second, to 
ascertain further, by discussion with the leading men of the institu- 
tion visited, their general policies, separating those arising through 
local conditions from those of wider application. In every case we 
were shown the greatest courtesy and afforded every facility for ob- 
taining the information desired. 

At all institutions visited the prominent fact was the phenomenal 
awakening of public interest in things agricultural, the rapidly increas- 
ing number of students and the new lines of work everywhere de- 
manded. 



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At each institution was emphasized the necessity of a better and 
better class of men for teaching and research, and the growing diffi- 
culty of obtaining and retaining them. Our unanimous conclusion is 
that of the three branches of work mentioned before, teaching does 
and must stand first. Scarcely second in importance, and essential to 
the best teaching, is research; while without well planned extension 
work, much of the results and practical application of research does 
not promptly reach the people for whom it is intended. In no case 
must extension work be allowed to infringe on the other branches, 
as such a course will not only decrease the effectiveness in those 
branches, but ultimately lower the standard of the extension work 
itself. 

The above is formulated, not with the idea that the College of 
Agriculture of the University of Illinois is solely a teaching institu- 
tion, or that it exists for research, or that its province is the dissem- 
ination of popular knowledge ; but that it is, and ever must be, a great 
public service organization for the betterment of agriculture in its 
broadest sense and of the people engaged directly or indirectly in 
agricultural pursuits. 

We have given especial attention to the subject of Domestic or 
Household Science, and our specific recommendations, to follow, 
have in view a radical departure in broadening and extending the 
scope of that most important department. 

After returning from our investigation of the institutions in other 
states we have made a careful investigation of conditions in Illinois. 
We feel warranted in stating that the people of our state may take 
just pride in their Agricultural College, in its personnel, and in the 
work which it has done under difficulties generally unknown, but we 
must not be blinded to the fact that we now face the greatest crisis 
in its history. 

Seven years ago the College had 339 students. During these seven 
years, it is fair to say that the scope of agricultural education has 
doubled, the directions in which instruction and research are de- 
manded has more than doubled, and the students enrolled number 
nearly two and one-third times those of seven years since; while the 
funds and facilities available are practically the same as those of 
1903-04. In this connection attention is called to the following table, 
a careful study of which is invited: 



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Growth and Funds of College; and Station, University 

oE Illinois 





Federal Funds 


State Appropriation 


Students 


Graduating 


Graduate 


Year 


CoUeg-e 


Station 


College 


Station 


Registered 


Class 


Students 


90-91 


$ 5.000 


$15,000 






7 


2 





91-92 


5,000 


15,000 






6 





2 


92-93 


5.000 


15,000 






13 


2 





93-94 


5,000 


15,000 






5 


I 


2 


94-95 


5,000 


15,000 






9 








95-96 


7,000 


15,000 






14 








96-97 


7,000 


15,000 






17 


2 





97-98 


7,000 


15,000 






19 


2 





98-99 


7,000 


15,000 






25 


4 





99-00 


28,000 


15,000 






90 


2 





00-01 


28,000 


15,000 






159 


4 





01-02 


28,000 


15,000 


$ 8,000 


$54,000 


232 


4 





02-03 


28,000 


15,000 


8,000 


54,000 


284 


9 





03-04 


28,000 


15,000 


61,000 


85,000 


339 


10 





04-oS 


28,000 


15,000 


61,000 


85,000 


406 


18 





oS-06 


28,500 


20,000 


61,000 


95,000 


430 


24 


9 


06-07 


28,500 


22,000 


61,000 


95,000 


462 


43 


10 


07-08 


31,000 


24,000 


71,000 


102,500 


528 


38 


17 


08-09 


33,500 


26,000 


71,000 


102,500 


531 


54 


IS 


09-10 


36,000 


28,000 


55,000 


138,000 


660 


49 


23 


10- 1 1 


38,500 


30,000 


55,000 


138,000 


662* 


? 


31* 


♦Will be at least 750 


, all told, before the year closes, besides 50 in the Academy. 




The 


average annual 


: rate of increase in the 


number of students for the past ten 


years has 


been over 17%. On this 


basis, in V 


(vo years (and before all buildings recommended can be corn- 


pleted) there will be over 1,000 students, and in 


five years 


there will be nearly 1,700. 





If the people of Illinois are to be effectively served as they have 
been in the past, immediate provision for not only present essentials, 
but for reasonable requirements in the near future must be made; 
otherwise our college will sink into the position of a second rate 
school, and our students seeking education must go to other states. 

Other colleges and private commercial interests are making such 
inroads on our present efficient corps of men that additional funds 
must be made available in order to maintain the present efficiency. 
Additional instructors must be provided to care for the more than 
doubled number of students and for the new lines of instruction de- 
manded. More men must be had for research. The demand for ex- 
tension work from almost every township in the state must be met by 
an additional force. New buildings and new equipment must be pro- 
vided. The establishment of agricultural instruction in the public 
and normal schools of the state and the training of teachers in these 
subjects should be pushed as rapidly as possible.. 

Passing every demand in review, and subjecting every item to the 
closest scrutiny with a view to strict economy, we submit the fol- 
lowing recommendations, being convinced that none may be omitted 
or reduced in amount without serious damage to the interests at stake. 



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New and Enlarged Lines oe Work and Cost of Maintenance 

NOW. PROSPECTIVE. 

Soil Biology $ 6,000 $ 10,000 

Municipal and Sanitary Dairying 5,ooo 10,000 

Veterinary Science 3,ooo 10,000 

Farm Organization and Management 10,000 25,000 

Rural Sociology 6,000 8,000 

Agricultural Education 10,000 10,000 

Landscape Gardening 10,000 10,000 

Floriculture 7,000 10,000 

Rural Architecture 7.000 7,000 

Poultry 10.000 10,000 

Forestry 10,000 25,000 

Comparative Agriculture 5,000 

Genetics 3,ooo 10,000 

Animal Nutrition ic,ooo 25,000 

Household Organization and Activities, Household 

Sanitation and Health 6.000 6,000 

Agricultural Extension 15,000 15,000 

Farm Mechanics 10,000 20,000 

Total $128,000 $216,000 

Total amount immediately required as above $128,000 

Less amount covered under former appropriations 32,000 

Net annual amount immediately required for new and enlarged lines 

of work $96,000 

Prospective amount for new and enlarged lines as above $216,000 

Less amount immediately required 128,000 

Net amount by which the immediate annual requirements must be in- 
creased in the near future $ 88,000 

Buildings 

Repair Fund, 5 per cent, of $295,000 invested in buildings $ 14,750 

Addition to Agronomy Greenhouse 9,000 

Plant Breeding House 8,000 

Present Glass Houses rebuilt and enlarged 35,ooo 

To complete Horticultural and Field Laboratory 9,000 

Addition to Agricultural Building, 100,000 sq. ft 337,5oo 

Dairy Cattle Building 40,000 

Dairy Investigating Barn 12,000 

Horse Building 40,000 

Sheep Buildings 15.000 

Judging Pavilion 100,000 

Tool Barn on South Farm 2,000 

Clinic Building _ S-OOO 

Alteration Farm Mechanics Building 8,000 

Total amount for buildings which must be built at once $635,250 

Considering the fact that Household Science has twice outgrown 
its quarters, and that the present rooms are entirely inadequate for 
serving more than the present enrollment of 225, and considering the 
growing importance of a serious study of the home as an economic 
and social institution, the Committee recommends that at the next 



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biennium succeeding the coming session, appropriations should be 
made for a building sufficiently commodious to provide for the ade- 
quate study of the affairs of the home whether by women or by 
men, and that such a building fully equipped should cost not less 
than $200,000. 

Equipment 

Dairy Cattle $ 8,000 

Beef Cattle 8,000 

Horses 12,000 

Sheep 2,000 

Swine 2,000 

$32,000 

Farm Machinery 3.500 

Total new equipment immediately required $ 3S,500 

Maintenance (Annually) 

Agronomy $ ^'^'4°° 

Animal Husbandry 20,000 

Dairy Husbandry 20,500 

Horticulture 21,300 

Veterinary Science 2,000 

Household Science 5,ooo 

College Extension 9.900 

General Offices 7,ooo 

$ 96,100 

Salaries 

Total present salary of the teaching faculty $ ^|'5°° 

Vacancies and cost of filling 8,600 

Increase necessary to maintain a body of first class men 15.000 

Additional assistance because of increased number of students 16,400 

Total amount required annually for salaries to continue the teach- 
ing work in its present scope $i3S.ooo 

SUMMARY 

Amounts required to supply the Urgent Needs of the Agricultural College 
of the University of the State of Illinois : 

Annual Appropriations 

Salaries $i35.ooo 

Maintenance 96,100 

New lines of work 96,000 

$327,100 

Deduct Federal Appropriations 40,000 

Total Annual Appropriations by the State $287,100 

Appropriations to be Made but once. 

New Equipment $ 35,500 

Buildings 635,250 

Total ......_ ...._. $670,750 

Total appropriations to be made for the coming biennium $1,244,950 



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The Committee early decided that in view of the rapidly increas- 
ing number of students anything like temporary methods were not 
only inadequate and futile but were bound to result in a waste of 
money. Accordingly, the purpose has been to look ahead as far as 
may be in order that the recommendations may become a part of 
a comprehensive plan, and in several instances recommendations are 
divided between what must be provided at once on account of the 
life of the institution and those needs that are clearly coming in the 
future. The above may probably be made to cover the requirements 
for a period of five years. 

We believe it should be the policy of the college to take part 
in public exhibitions of an educational nature, but are firmly con- 
vinced that the established policy of not entering into competitive 
exhibitions should be commended and continued. 

The attention of fairs and expositions especially is called to the 
fact that the work of the college and station affords much excellent 
material for attractive exhibits, but that such exhibitions should be 
strictly educational and not competitive; first, because such institu- 
tions are established as educational agencies ; second, because no basis 
for competition exists between educational exhibits; and third, be- 
cause the support is all derived from public funds. The committee 
has included no estimates therefore for defraying its expenses of 
competitive exhibits. 

The following table gives in comparative form as furnished to 
us, the most important facts regarding the other institutions visited. 



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It should be noted that the amount recommended herein to be 
appropriated for new buildings at the Illinois College of Agriculture 
is less than 40 per cent of that provided for in New York and when 
the buildings planned in both states are completed, New York will 
have $2.75 invested in buildings as against $1.00 in Illinois, although 
her agricultural interests do not even approximate those of Illinois 
in extent. 

While not technically a part of the college, the work of the State 
Entomologist is so closely related and of such great importance to 
all departments of agriculture that we wish to bespeak most care- 
ful consideration of his requirements. We recommend the appropria- 
tion of $38,000 asked by him for this work. 

Respectfully submitted, 

F. I. Mann, Oilman, III., Chairman. 
Ralph Allien, Delavan, 111. 
C. A. EwiNG, Decatur, 111. 
H. J. Sconce, Sidell, 111. 
W. N. RuDD, Blue Island, 111. 

On December 5 a meeting of the General Agricultural Committee 
was duly called and held at Urbana, at which meeting there were pres- 
ent representatives of the various advisory committees, agricultural as- 
sociations and leading representatives of agriculture. At this meeting 
the following actions were taken : 

The above report was read and approved. 

A legislative committee was provided for, which is to be composed 
of the special committe as above named, to which was added one 
member from each advisory committee, as follows: J. P. Mason, J. 
Mack Tanner, Joseph R. Fulkerson. 

A tentative draft of our appropriation bill was adopted, which is 
as follows : 



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Tentative Draft of a Bill 

For AN ACT to enlarge the Agricultural College and Experiment Station of 
the University of Illinois. 

Section i. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented 
in the General Assembly : That in order to enable the Agricultural College and 
Experiment Station to meet the increased demands made upon it as a public 
service institution, the following amounts be and hereby are appropriated : 
For salary and maintenance of the Agricultural College and Experi- 
ment Station, ordinary expenses, the sum of two hundred and 
eighty-seven thousand dollars annually, for the years 1911-12 and 
1912-13 $287,000 

For special investigation and demonstration by the Experi- 
ment Station, at the institution and over the State, an- 
nually, as follows : 

For Live Stock Investigation, annually $25,000 

For Farm Crops Investigation, annually 15,000 

For Soils Investigation, annually 60,000 

For Orchard Investigation, annually 15,000 

For Dairy Investigation, annually 15,000 

For Floriculture Investigation, annually 8,000 

For Soil Maps, and other publications 25,000 



$163,000 



For increasing the equipment, single appropriations, as follows : 

Specimens of Dairy Breeds $ 8,000 

Specimens of Beef Breeds 8,000 

Horses, Breed Specimens 12,000 

Sheep, Breed Specimens 2,000 

Swine, Breed Specimens 2,000 

Equipment for Laboratory in Farm Mechanics 3, 500 



35.500 



For Buildings, single appropriations, as follows : 

Addition to the Agricultural Building $337,500 

Dairy Cattle Building 40,000 

Horse Building 40,000 

Judging Pavilion 100,000 

To rebuild Glass House 35,ooo 

Addition to Agronomy Greenhouse 9,000 

Plant Breeding House (glass) 8,000 

To enlarge Farm Mechanics Building 8,000 

Dairy Investigation Barn 12,000 

Sheep Building 1 5,000 

Cold Storage in Horticultural Field Laboratory 9,000 

CHnic Building S.ooo 

Tool and Horse Barn, South Farm 2,000 

Repair of Buildings I4,750 



635.250 

We concur in the action of our Advisory Committee wliicli led 
to the establishment of the General Agricultural Committee, and the 
appointment of a sub-committee to investigate conditions at the Agri- 
cultural College of the State of Illinois and we approve of the per- 
sonnel of the legislative committee. 



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The report of the above committee is accepted, and we urge 
each member of this association individually to make every effort 
to secure the carrying out of the recommendations contained in the 
report, and hereby pledge the earnest support of this association as 
an organized body in furtherance of this move to place the College 
of Agriculture of the University of Illinois again upon a proper basis. 

J. R. FULKERSON, 

Illinois Live Stock Breeders' Association. 
Geo. D. Montelius, Pres. 
S. W. Strong, Sec. 
Illinois Grain Dealers' Association. 
C. A. RowE, Pres. 
L. F. Maxcy, Sec. 
Illinois Corn Grozvers' Association. 

E. W. Burroughs, Pres. 
H. A. McKeene, Sec. 
Illinois State Farmers' Institute. 
R. O. Graham, Pres. 
W. B. IxoYD, Sec. 
Illinois State Horticultural Society. 
Thomas Lamb, Pres. 
J. A. McCreery, Sec. 
Farmers' Grain Dealers Association of Illinois. 
A. N. Abbott, Pres. 
W. Huffaker, Sec. 
Illinois Corn Growers' and Stockmen's Convention. 
C. L. Washburn, Pres. 
J. F. Ammann, Sec. 
Illinois State Florists' Association. 
Leigh F. Maxcy, Pres. 
H. J. Sconce, Sec. 
Illinois Seed Corn Breeders' Association. 
Leigh F. Maxcy, Pres. 
A. W. Jamison, Sec. 

Illinois Farmers' Club. 



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